Characters: Colonies are massive or encrusting. Corallites are very small and immersed. The coenosteum has tuberculae which seldom contain corallites.
Colour: Dark green or brown.
Similar Species: Montipora floweri, which has evenly distributed corallites. See also M. hoffmeisteri.
Habitat: Occurs in crevices and beneath overhangs.
Abundance: Common but inconspicuous.
Taxonomic Note: A species complex.
Taxonomic References: Crossland (1952); Veron and Wallace (1984); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
